02/02/2025
📰 RESULT SUNDAY 2ND FEBRUARY
Thorpe United Vets 5 - 2 Strensall Tigers
At last Thorpe Vets managed to find some sunshine for a game of football on a Sunday morning. It was a turbulent start to the morning with Tim Heaton not showing up, rumour has it he is still on the train!
Strensall started the game strong, applying lots of pressure to Thorpe all over the field, frustratingly Thorpe managed to cope until a Strensall winger caught a lucky bobble and everyone watched his cross fly in to the far corner, past a helpless Dunne in goal. Thorpe continued to battle hard, and with their very own Rory Delap (Lewis) creating mayhem with his long throw they managed to get a penalty, which Crowther tucked away in the bottom corner. Game on!
Second half started brightly, Calum hounding the Strensall backline like a man possessed and in doing so he jumped on a mistake from the centre half and pummelled a low drive in to the bottom corner!
The long throw continued to create chance after chance, eventually Thorpe capitalised through Howden, a huge header from a packed box. 3-1.
Strensall continued to catch Thorpe on the counter but they found a solid defence and behind them, a keeper in top form, Dunne with numerous top class saves! Strensalls pressure did create them an unmissable chance and they managed to pull in back to 3-2.
The defence of Rob, Kacper and Chris didn’t panic though and stayed very solid for the rest of the game. The middle 3 of Sowden, Littlewood and Crowther who happen to have a combined age of 206 continued to do a lot of running without seeing much of the ball but luckily Ian Baker came off the bench to hit a thunderous volley to make it 4-2 and take the pressure off. Shortly after Littlewood made it 5 and the points were in the bag.
Nathan and Lewis battled hard all day against a mouthy Strensall defence, their effort did not go unnoticed along with England and Howden backing them up.
A big shout out to Luke Matthews as well who pulled his hamstring 4 times in the same game but carried on for 60mins!
Somehow, Thorpe Vets find themselves fighting the top of the league, the tactical genius of Howson is really paying off!
🏆MOTM: Calum England
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